Nyssa (Nyssaceae) FMWJ13122

aff. shweliensis

A delightfully colourful sight to encounter in truly dreadful weather on or first day of a long trek through the Hoang Liang Mountain Range where there was no turning back as we were committed. Here it formed a small tree 10m high with long slender branches of ovate leaves densely pilose on the veins below, to 30cm long. With many axillary panicles of ellipsoid fruit turning blue-black when ripe, which had succeeded the flowers born in April to May in the wild. Best grown in some shelter from cold winds in a drained fertile acid to neutral soil